ily planning services and methods represent only a means to a predetermined end. It is indeed difficult to demonstrate empirically that family planning programs have played a significant role in reducing desired fertility. Critics have noted the important contribution that the availability of family planning services makes to reducing unwanted fertility,3 but what of the role of family planning...

INTRODUCTION Preparing nurse graduates for practice is challenging because of the diversity of skills expected of them. Increasingly consumers are more informed and expect quality care. OBJECTIVE To identify the attributes a rural community expect in new graduate nurses in order for them to provide quality care. METHODS A questionnaire was designed to assess the importance attached to a set...

The purpose of the present paper is to introduce a methodology, using structural equation modeling, that we believe has the potential to improve the design of assistive technology products. In addition, a large-scale evaluation of the methodology is currently underway (to be completed in early 2011) that focuses on power wheelchair use and users. The methodology attempts to determine the future...

The RNA-guided Cas9 system is a versatile tool for genome editing. Here, we established a RNA-guided endonuclease (RGEN) system as an in vivo desired-target mutator (DTM) in maize to reduce the linkage drag during breeding procedure, using the LIGULELESS1 (LG1) locus as a proof-of-concept. Our system showed 51.5%-91.2% mutation frequency in T0 transgenic plants. We then crossed the T1 plants st...

quality assessment in an educational activity is the most important action for improving this process and its totally or partly renewed resumption. quality assessment compares the existing and the desired situation. in the education system outcome, review the existing and desired situation is a turning point of quality assessment. therefore it is necessary to describe outcome desired situation ...